Need We Say More?

Ah, Casablanca. I can think of no better way to round out the classic movie binge we've been on than with Casablanca. Everyone has seen at least part of this movie. We were shown in in school, it was given to us by parents. I was sat down by instructors and told this was one of the most important movies I would ever see. And it's true, but I did not fully comprehend that at the time.

What ultimately makes Casablanca special is the insane amount of passion present in every word spoken and every shot framed. The movie wasn't expected by anyone to be anything special. It was a romance set in wartime, and the story is an old one. But the cast of thousands, the undeniable chemistry between Bogart and Bergman, and the elegant blend of humor and painful, chest-gripping sadness made this movie a treasure. It will remain a classic for the rest of time.

We went into this game fully expecting to sob like children. So how long did we hold out? I'm ashamed to say, not long enough.

The Mother of All Drinking Games

Take a look at the above image. Now imagine seeing that after downing five-plus mixed drinks in the course of two hours. We nearly wet ourselves.

We continue the movie classics binge we've been on lately with one of the most famous horror movies of all time, and probably the first movie you think of when you hear the name "Hitchcock." Psycho is such a diabolically good movie. Every second is so carefully plotted. Every beat is lived through. Not all that much actually happens during the movie, but every scene forwards the plot and builds an increasingly high level of intrigue and tension. And let's not forget the transformation the movie goes through at its halfway point, bringing audiences the most memorable and most often parodied twist cinema has ever seen.

You would think that knowing what's going to happen would make a movie LESS scary. Far from it; our apprehension only grew thicker. The alcohol managed to dull our senses, but it only sharpened our screams.

Drink ALL the Wine

This is by far the longest game we've played here at For Your Inebriation. The Godfather is an epic, clocking in at just under three hours of backstabbing, power-grabbing and high-stakes negotiation. Believe me when I say, though, that the length of the movie will not make the game any less difficult.

Ideally, this game can be used for any of the movies in the Godfather trilogy, but for the purposes of our test, we used the first in the series. We treated the game like a party. People were constantly coming in and out, we ordered a pizza, and the wine flowed like a river. A dark, slow movie like this didn't seem likely to be a huge conversation piece, but it was, and we all had a blast.

But what you really want to know, I bet, is how many bottles of wine we went through that night. The answer is six. Read on, good friends.